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Then geology that showed how to tell apart the
material spewed by the eruption from the original
soils found at the site prior to burial of the spring.
last but not the least, chemistry that through its
cryptic language of cations and anions leads pro-
gressively to the source of Fuente santa spring.
it was through the mixture of the four sciences,
history, engineering, Geology and chemistry,
that Fuente santa could be found; Without any of
them, or leaving out any of them, we would still be
going around in circles below ground searching for
something that used to belong to the island and
that during three centuries was sought for with the
same momentum applied by anyone in the search
of his life.
acknoWleDGeMenTs
i must recognize the work done by coRsan-
coRViaM, supervised by herminio Torres and
Roberto Pareja, whose performance and profes-
sional knowledge made it possible to complete the
129-m long gallery and to build the modern pools
of san lorenzo and san Blas.
i must also thank the company saTocan that
appointed Julián Mansilla as supervisor.
The grout supervisor was Manuel Jesús Rodríguez,
who did a really good work.
The author wants to acknowledge the technician
Manuel Fernández and the geologist luis hernán-
dez for their sound collaboration.
